Providing e-resources represents significant investment of time and effort from acquisition to licensing and management. Libraries are rightly concerned over duplicated and wasted effort across the institution in managing these processes.

Moreover, librarians, library system vendors and others in the supply chain often complain about the difficulty of accessing reliable and accurate information for the knowledge bases that underpin so many library systems and services. The answers should be there, but finding them can be challenging.

As a shared service, KB+ saves librarians time and effort, by moving a number of these functions to the national level, and by facilitating more effective management of the information.

"We treat KB+ as the single source of truth... if it’s in KB+, that’s where you start"

Benefits for library and information professionals

Specifically designed to meet the needs of today’s library and information professionals, the service enables you to:

Save time maintaining and correcting information when you use the automatically updated, accurate title lists we make available

Manage your subscriptions in one place, right down to the detail of tracking dates and formats

Automatically share key information on subscriptions, licences and resources with relevant teams in your organisation, cutting down the time you have to deal directly with multiple individual queries

Enjoy more seamless transfer of information between your organisation and the publishers and agents you deal with

Use the information to provide a better service to students, researchers and staff, whether it’s giving them more access to previously procured journals, or making more strategic decisions about renewals

Export your subscription data on various link resolvers formats, so staff don’t need to duplicate work

Identify overlapping subscriptions and alternative packages that might include a specific title

Through access to this reliable and accurate data, we can support libraries in their analysis and evaluation of e-resources, increasing confidence in procurement decisions. Importantly this helps libraries demonstrate the value of their resources to the wider institution.

"Previously, we would have held all the [license] information in lots of different places. To have it all together is just really really efficient and coordinated. We really love KB+."

What are the benefits to my organisation?

Reap savings in time and money, and enable your staff to concentrate on data analysis rather than data collation

More confident decision-making, based on standardised and trustworthy data

Join the conversation to help UK-wide consortia such as Jisc to secure the best possible resources for learning and research providers, based on empirical evidence on usage and trends

"Over the last two years we’ve made efficiencies. [KB+] has made decisions more informed – we know why we’re renewing. Before KB+ and JUSP, this kind of work would have taken weeks rather than a few days."